Loose leaf green tea is good for your heart! New research shows that loose leaf green tea can help reduce your risk of developing heart disease, in addition to all of the other benefits it has on your health.

How does it work?

Studies show that green tea can help improve your circulatory system by improving the function of certain types of cells that occur in this system. Green tea can even reverse the damaging effects of cigarette smoke on the circulatory system.

Why green tea?

Green tea is harvested from the camellia sinensis plant and is processed a bit differently from the other three types of tea, (oolong tea, black, and white). It undergoes less oxidation than black and oolong teas and this change in the processing leaves it with more antioxidants and nutrients.

Other ways green tea can help

Green tea has been shown to prevent cardiovascular diseases and high blood pressure, among other types of ailments. Research also suggests that green tea can help to lower your LDL, or the bad kind, of cholesterol. This leads to better heart health. Green tea can also help you to lose weight by boosting your metabolism, energizing you, and helping you to burn off calories and fat at a faster rate. By losing and maintaining a healthy weight, you are at less of a risk for having high cholesterol and developing heart disease.

Other benefits of green tea

Regularly drinking loose leaf green tea can have benefits other than helping to prevent cardiovascular diseases. It can help with anything from improving the health of your teeth to fighting cancer. It can alleviate anxiety, ward off depression, help improve your sleep, ward off headaches, cure allergies, help prevent hair loss, strengthen your immune system, and help to fight off free radicals and may help to delay the aging process.

It takes more than tea to tango

Of course, green tea isn’t, as much as it seems to be, a miraculous panacea. It won’t cure all your woes. It can complement a healthy lifestyle though. It’s important to maintain a well balanced diet with all the nutrients your body needs. And never underestimate the importance and value of daily exercise. But green tea, when added to a healthy lifestyle, can help to improve your health even more.

Green tea is tasty

Another major perk of green tea is that, even though it’s good for you, even though it has no calories, and even though it has all of these health benefits, it actually tastes delicious. It’s an all natural way to improve your health, and it has a heavenly flavor. So start brewing some loose leaf tea, even learning how to brew the tea can be an adventure in itself. Try mixing it with different flavors, experiment. And add a few cups to your daily life.